In
<cae1xxdhf4ureg-jxlb9kgsqqvcoejk+hvnt0a_mmsohzzck...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/04/2013
at 03:47 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>What I have sensed in a number of posts
You have a record of sensing things that are not there.
>a mixture of anglophone bigotry and anglophone provinciality,
I see some of that, but not very much.
>Moreover, I suspect that familiarity has desensititized us to the
>deficiencies of both ASCII and EBCDIC.
I won't presume to speak for others, but familiarity has made me
painfully aware of the deficiencies not only of those but of all of
the 8-bit character sets.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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